The National Archives and Arts Council England sign new agreement The National Archives and Arts Council England have signed a new collaboration agreement for 2024 to 2027. This agreement outlines how we will build on our previous work together to ensure a comprehen ...
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities is taking a break in 2024 The Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference offers a unique collaboration opportunity for colleagues from across the Gallery, Library, Archive, Museum and Academic (GLAMA) s ...
Spirit of Invention exhibition opens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne The National Archives is delighted to announce the launch of our free family exhibition Spirit of Invention in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It opens to the public at the Discovery Museum on Saturday 16 March. ...
New exhibits showcase trailblazing MIT women This spring, two new exhibits on campus are shining a light on the critical contributions of pathbreaking women at the Institute. They are part of MIT Libraries’ Women@MIT Archival Initiative in the D ...
Filling in the gaps: acquiring legislation from the Controller’s Library In late November 2023, we uploaded to legislation.gov.uk the first batch of 7,000 items of historical legislation digitised from the Controller’s Library. The Controller’s Library was the archive of m ...
Three Lincoln Laboratory inventions named IEEE Milestones The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) designated three historical MIT Lincoln Laboratory technologies as IEEE Milestones. The technologies are the Mode S air traffic control (AT ...
Pristine sweater in parcel posted in 1807 A 200-year-old sweater in a traditional Faroese knit has been found in a stash of 19th-century letters at The National Archives in our Prize Papers collection. The jumper, handknitted in vibrantly col ...
MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the... After a week of festivities around campus, members of the MIT community gathered Saturday evening in the Boston Marriott Kendall Square ballroom to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King ...
300,000 farm records going online, thanks to grant from Lund Trust ‘Lend a hand on the land’ poster (cropped) from the Ministry of Agriculture from the Second World War. Catalogue reference: INF13-140 (11)
The National Archives is delighted to announce th ...
The National Archives is delighted to announce th ...
300,000 farm records going online, thanks to grant from Lund Trust The National Archives is delighted to announce that we will digitise the National Farm Survey (MAF 32 and MAF 73) in full, thanks to a generous grant of £2.13 million from Lund Trust.
The 1941 ...
The 1941 ...
Great Escapes exhibition launched MI9 bulletin TNA W0208/3268
We opened our new exhibition Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War Captives with a launch event and positive coverage in the media.
At the opening, author and intellig ...
We opened our new exhibition Great Escapes: Remarkable Second World War Captives with a launch event and positive coverage in the media.
At the opening, author and intellig ...
Allocating collections accepted in lieu of tax Image: account book belonging to William Calley the elder, draper of London, recording his trade in cloth with individual clients, 1600-1606. Image courtesy of Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
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Life and death in Hong Kong during the Second World War Content note: This blog includes descriptions of violence during war, including references to sexual violence, which some people may find upsetting.
Katrina Lidbetter volunteers at The National Arc ...
Katrina Lidbetter volunteers at The National Arc ...
Illustrating India’s complex environmental crises Abhijit Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, and Sarnath Banerjee (no relation), an MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST) visiting artist share a sim ...
Projects investigating Swahili, global media win SHASS Humanities Awards Two projects — the Global Mediations Lab led by Paul Roquet and the MIT Swahili Studies Initiative led by Per Urlaub — have won Humanities Awards from the MIT School of Humanities, Arts ...
Join The National Archives Board Are you interested in helping to lead and shape the work of The National Archives? We are looking to appoint two non-executive members to our Board.
The National Archives is at a transformative moment ...
The National Archives is at a transformative moment ...
Latest Cabinet Office files released Today we have released Cabinet Office files from 20 years ago covering a range of subjects that crossed the desk of Tony Blair as prime minister.
Some of the issues in the files include:
Home affairs ...
Some of the issues in the files include:
Home affairs ...
Minicourse open to the MIT community gives context to the Middle East crisis MIT community members can learn more about the Israel-Hamas conflict through a recently developed online course organized by Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/MIT at MIT’s Center for International S ...
Fengshui in the Qing Dynasty courtroom Disputes over mining were common in late imperial China, during the Qing Dynasty. For instance, in the 1870s, Wu Tang, the governor-general of Sichuan province, enacted an outright ban on mining, desp ...
Records of Czechoslovakian refugees to the UK from 1939 to 1975 On the eve of the Second World War, in response to the Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia, the British Government established the Czechoslovak Refugee Trust. To mark International Migrants Day, this bl ...
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